Over the course of 2022, the last post-pandemic year, we saw many in-person industry conferences and expositions come back, and as we saw with PRINTING United in the US, many with a vengeance! Now it’s time for Hunkeler Innovationdays to return to the industry landscape.

Hunkeler AG is a well-established leader in paper processing headquartered in Wikon, Switzerland. In fact, they recently celebrated their 100th anniversary. In their own words, “We move paper. We process paper. We shape paper. We refine paper. We love paper. We live paper. We are the people working on the future of paper finishing.” To anyone who has any Hunkeler finishing equipment, there is never a question of their expertise in developing and manufacturing efficient finishing solutions of the highest quality. And as we all know, “the printing isn’t complete until it is finished.”

Hunkeler AG initially developed Hunkeler Innovationdays as a way for their partners and themselves to bring together some of the latest digital printing workflows and equipment with the latest finishing equipment to showcase complete solutions. This has historically been a biennial event. I say “historically” since the last one was held in February 2019, pre-pandemic. While they attempted to hold it in 2021 and then again in 2022, the global pandemic and the war in Eastern Europe forced them to postpone it until this February 27–March 2, 2023. It returns to its home at the Lucerne Exhibition Center, in Lucerne Switzerland. In my opinion, it has sorely been missed.